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TROJAN MILL, PRIMARY THICKENER No. 1 FROM WEST, c. 1914. TANK BARREL IS COMPLETE, BUT ADDITION ENCLOSURE NOT YET BEGUN. SAMPLING ADDITION SOUTH OF CRUSHED ORE BIN (CHANGE OF SIDING COLOR SHOWN AS COMPLETE. ROCK BIN VISIBLE ON FAR RIGHT. CREDIT WR. - Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, Lead, Lawrence County, SD
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Trojan Mining Company; Bald Mountain Mining Company; American Eagle Mining Company; Eve, David, historian
Depicted place South Dakota; Lawrence County; Lead
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER SD,41-LEAD.V,1-5
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  • Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historically this site was of great economic and social importance to the Black Hills region of South Dakota.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N790
  • Survey number: HAER SD-2
  • Building/structure dates: 1907- 1959 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1910 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1920 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1942 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/sd0019.photos.189325p
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